Itahana Fm Molluscan Fauna Locality 7: Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Sinum yabei Otuka 1934
synonym of Sinum ineptum
Neverita kiritaniana (Yokoyama 1931)
synonym of Glossaulax didyma
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Phos iwakianus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius acutidentatus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Felaniella usta
synonym of Diplodonta
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Mercenaria chitaniana
Protothaca tateiwai
synonym of Leukoma
Dosinia kaneharai
Dosinia japonica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Laevicardium shiobarense
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma annulata (Reeve 1850)
recombined as Lucinoma annulatum
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatella" pauxilla
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Patinopecten) paraplebejus Nomura and Hatai 1936
recombined as Mizuhopecten paraplebejus
Chlamys kaneharai (Yokoyama 1926)
recombined as Mimachlamys kaneharai
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris cisshuensis Makiyama 1926
Dominant species at locality
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 139.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.7° North, 136.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Itahana
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: formations cover unconformably the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks and crystalline shists
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified conglomerate
Secondary lithology: tuff
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The Itahana formation is composed of much coarser clastic sediments than the lower two formations. Lithofacies of the formation is changable within one horizon. Most of conglomeratic layers are lens shaped. A thick tuff bed and lignite are found in the upper part. Molluscan fossils occur richly.
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:regressive
Geology comments: Overlies Yoshii and Fukushima formation and underlies Akima formation.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Locality 7
Database number:52322
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:K. Bulinski Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-08-03 11:00:19 Last modified:2005-08-03 14:00:19
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-03 11:00:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13978. Y. Iwasaki. 1970. The Shiobara-type Molluscan Fauna: An ecological analysis of fossil molluscs. Journal of the faculty of science, University of Tokyo, Section 2 17(3):351-444 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/K. Bulinski]